The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 106
... remains an unusual sort of ' idleness ' that could produce the Dictionary , the Shakespeare , and a dozen vol- umes of works . He could well have concluded , like Chateaubriand : ' I have written enough if my name will last ; too much ...
... remains an unusual sort of ' idleness ' that could produce the Dictionary , the Shakespeare , and a dozen vol- umes of works . He could well have concluded , like Chateaubriand : ' I have written enough if my name will last ; too much ...
Pagina 172
... remains for the modern reader , who does not bear the burden of having Chesterfield for father ? The letters have wit ; wisdom ; a clear and vigorous , if monotonous , style ; and a certain force of personality . There are things to be ...
... remains for the modern reader , who does not bear the burden of having Chesterfield for father ? The letters have wit ; wisdom ; a clear and vigorous , if monotonous , style ; and a certain force of personality . There are things to be ...
Pagina 315
... remains as difficult as it looks easy . And I find myself remembering Goldsmith when I read the cataracts of translations from Greek Tragedy that now tumble upon us . Their authors , with their studiously bleak blank verse and their ...
... remains as difficult as it looks easy . And I find myself remembering Goldsmith when I read the cataracts of translations from Greek Tragedy that now tumble upon us . Their authors , with their studiously bleak blank verse and their ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE I | 1 |
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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